Leroy Jenkins writes:
...the Leeroy-Leroy issue. I forgot the "e."
It doesn't really matter, but if you want to you can create an alias of the same name but with the extra 'e' and both accounts will be linked and then you can have whatever name you'd like. If someone mouse-hovers over your name, they will then see all your alias accounts (try it on ringo or RAZD in this thread if you want to see what I mean).
Anyway, another thing I wanted to quickly mention was that I'm sorry about the way I worded the OP. I've noticed that I seem to have struck a nerve with some people
Heh... don't worry about it. We just like to talk about pretty much everything and anything around here. That sometimes comes with a certain flair for the dramatic. It's nothing personal
Having had that pointed out to me, I've revised my original idea...
It is wise to change a position accordingly when new information comes to light.
I'm getting a better picture of why people do go to cemeteries now, but I think that the thing I proposed, a database of every dead person, complete with their autobiography, pictures, and possibly other biographies of them, would be a very good thing to help people remember the dead. I understand that it wouldn't replace actually going to a place where you spent time with them, and I'm not going to pretend that it could.
Such a database sounds like a very good alternative to me. Maybe one day it will replace cemeteries... maybe not. But if it's available as an alternative it's then possible to see how viable it can actually be.
People's feelings are a strange matter, though. Even if something is replaced with an obvious upgrade... some folks won't want to change simply because
they don't like change. The evolution of things generally has to wait for these people to die-off before the transition takes place... but who knows how many people will stand in the way of your idea unless you try it.
...if someone started such an online program to record details about yourself that could be accessed by anyone in any generation...
When stated like that, it sounds a lot like Facebook...
By the time the world has been urbanized...
This idea seems to imply that urbanization is a good thing and should be desired. Maybe we should take a look to see if we actually
want to urbanize everything. Perhaps it would be better to leave some areas non-urbanized and find a way to control our population increase.
I'm actually going to start a Programming Club and a Robotics Club (not sure why I mentioned the second)
Most likely just because robots are cool.